Nirad C. Chaudhuri

"As soon as the English mind came in contact with the Hindu's, which was a very different kind of mind, it completely lost its temper, and so became incapable of dispassionate analysis. But the display…"

"Do you know what religion is? It is a revolt against death. A revolt against biology, a reaction against decay."

"I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight."

"The immense noisy crowds that greeted the end of British rule in India with deafening shouts of joy on August 15, 1947, did not recall the old saying: they thought nothing of British rule would surviv…"

"Salvation is never the object of religious observances and worship of the Hindus. The main object is worldly prosperity, and this absorption in the world has made the doctrine of rebirth in it the mos…"

"By the time the Muslims established their rule in the country the old inhabitants of the country, i.e. the Hindus, had lost their vitality to such an extent that they became incapable of dealing with …"

"When I write in English I am not writing as an Indian or an Englishman. I am just a writer. Writers know no nationality."

"I would also set down, as a matter of moral obligation, that I consider Kipling to be the only English writer who will have a permanent place in English literature with books on Indian themes, and who…"